Rudolf Lothar

Rudolf Lothar (born Rudolf Lothar Spitzer; 25 February 1865 – 2 October 1943) was an Austrian playwright, librettist, critic and essayist. He was born and died in Budapest.
Literary works
1891 Der verschleierte König, drama
1900 König Harlekin, play, translated into 14 languages
1900 Das Wiener Burgtheater
1904 Tiefland, opera libretto set to music by Eugen d'Albert, based on the 1896 Catalan play Terra baixa by Àngel Guimerà
1910 Kurfürstendamm, novel
1910 Die drei Grazien, comedy
1910 Der Herr von Berlin, novel
1912 Die verschenkte Frau, opera libretto set to music by Eugen d'Albert
1912 , opera libretto set to music by Eugen d'Albert based on Àngel Guimerà’s Filla del mar
1916 Die Seele Spaniens
1920 Casanovas Sohn, comedy
1920 Li-Tai-Pe, Des Kaisers Dichter, opera libretto set to music by Clemens von Franckenstein
1921 Der Werwolf, comedy
1925 Die Kunst des Verführens
1927 Der gute Europäer, comedy
1927 Die Republik befiehlt, comedy
1931 , opera libretto set to music by Paul Graener based on novel of the same name
1931 Der Papagei, comedy
1931 Besuch aus dem Jenseits, drama
1934 The Red Cat (German title: Die Nacht vor dem Ultimo), comedy
Filmography
Tiefland, directed by Friedrich Rosenthal and (Silent film, 1918, based on the opera Tiefland)
Under the Mountains, directed by Béla Balogh (Silent film, 1920, based on the opera Tiefland)
Lowlands, directed by Adolf E. Licho (Silent film, 1922, based on the opera Tiefland)
The Masked Dancer, directed by Burton L. King (Silent film, 1924, based on the play Die Frau mit der Maske)
For Wives Only, directed by Victor Heerman (Silent film, 1926, based on the story The Critical Year)
The Magic Flame, directed by Henry King (Silent film, 1927, based on the play König Harlekin)
The Boudoir Diplomat, directed by Malcolm St. Clair (English, 1930, based on the play Die Republik befiehlt)
Don Juan diplomático, directed by George Melford (Spanish, 1931, based on the play Die Republik befiehlt)
Boudoir diplomatique, directed by Marcel De Sano (French, 1931, based on the play Die Republik befiehlt)
Liebe auf Befehl, directed by Johannes Riemann and Ernst L. Frank (German, 1931, based on the play Die Republik befiehlt)
Folies Bergère de Paris, directed by Roy Del Ruth (English, 1935, based on the play Die Nacht vor dem Ultimo)
Folies-Bergère, directed by Roy Del Ruth and Marcel Achard (French, 1935, based on the play Die Nacht vor dem Ultimo)
Return of a Stranger, directed by Victor Hanbury (English, 1937, based on a play)
That Night in Rio, directed by Irving Cummings (English, 1941, based on the play Die Nacht vor dem Ultimo)
Esta é Fina, directed by Luiz de Barros (Portuguese, 1948, based on the play Die Nacht vor dem Ultimo)
On the Riviera, directed by Walter Lang (English, 1951, based on the play Die Nacht vor dem Ultimo)
Tiefland, directed by Leni Riefenstahl (German, 1940–54, based on the opera Tiefland)
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1865 births
1943 deaths
Writers from Austria-Hungary
Austrian male dramatists and playwrights
Austrian theatre critics
19th-century Austrian male writers
20th-century Austrian male writers
19th-century Austrian dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Austrian dramatists and playwrights